Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type

A guide to typographic composition for designers, with plentiful 20th century examples. Each example is overlaid with a translucent sheet that exposes its visual organization. The volume explains typography as a system not just of verbal information but of lines of texture that create rectangles of tone on a page; in the placement of the rectangles lies the perception of order and unity in a composition. Elam heads the graphic and interactive communication department at the Ringling School of Ar…